Klamath Stream Monitoring Data Package 2011-2022

Description

This dataset contains monitoring data for streams at Crater Lake NP, Lassen Volcanic NP, Oregon Caves NMP, Redwood NSP, and Whiskeytown NRA. Streams are significant and productive resources that are influenced by activities both inside and outside parks boundaries. Because healthy streams are vital to park landscapes and ecosystems, we sample physical, biological, and chemical parameters. These varied parameters allow us to measure change over time and across the landscape. Thus, we can detect trends and assess impacts. Since 2011, the Klamath Network has been monitoring streams in five parks. The protocol combines monitoring water quality characteristics of streams, such as the chemical and physical conditions, with monitoring the aquatic communities that the stream supports, such as the fish, plants, and macroinvertebrates. The combined protocol is extremely effective as it can provide both snapshots in time of water quality and habitat properties, as well as long term indications of health from the living assemblages. Objectives are to: Determine the status and trends of conditions in wadeable streams. Assist parks with “impaired quality waters,” also known as “303d” lists as defined by the Clean Water Act. Assist parks with monitoring of “Outstanding National Resource Waters” or Tier 3 waters as defined by the Clean Water Act. We measure/collect: Physical environment including substrate composition, depth, gradient, discharge, stream width, and bank height. Water anions, cations, and nutrients. Water quality parameters including dissolved oxygen, temperature, specific conductivity, turbidity, and pH. Algal samples to determine periphyton biomass. Benthic macroinvertebrates. Visual Encounter Surveys for amphibians. Fish populations. Photographs to provide visual comparisons over time.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
8 Holds photo data https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717498?Reference=2308836
55 EML Metadata https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717487?Reference=2308836
8 Hold data that were collected as part of the slope sampling procedures https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717500?Reference=2308836
8 Holds data that were collected as part of the Channel Morphology sampling procedures https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717490?Reference=2308836
8 This table contains information about woody debris that is above bankfull https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717506?Reference=2308836
8 Hold data about invasives vegetation collected along transects. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717503?Reference=2308836
8 Holds Acid Neutralizing Capacity data https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717489?Reference=2308836
8 Holds water chemistry data- provided from processing lab https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717504?Reference=2308836
8 This table contains data about the thalweg profile https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717501?Reference=2308836
8 Holds discharge measurements https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717491?Reference=2308836
8 Holds data about human influences, collected along transects https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717495?Reference=2308836
8 Holds legacy tree data https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717497?Reference=2308836
8 Holds algal biomass data- some data provided from processing lab https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717488?Reference=2308836
8 Holds data collected along the transect https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717502?Reference=2308836
8 Holds water quality data collected with manta probe https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717505?Reference=2308836
8 Holds data about sampling reach, including locations data https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717499?Reference=2308836
8 Holds data about fish cover, collected along transects https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717494?Reference=2308836
8 Holds data for fish and amphibian sampling https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717492?Reference=2308836
8 Holds sampling event data including date and time. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717493?Reference=2308836
8 Holds aquatic macroinvertebrate data- provided from processing lab https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717496?Reference=2308836
8 This table contains information about woody debris that is all or part of bankfull https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/717507?Reference=2308836

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  • streams-monitoring
  • long-term-monitoring
  • water-quality
  • ecological-monitoring
  • ecological-data
  • national-parks
  • streams

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